Imtiaz Butt

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Imtiaz Butt
Personal information
Full name Muhammad Imtiaz Kashmiri
Date of birth 1973 (age 51–52)
Place of birth Faisalabad, Pakistan
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1984–1986 Tariqabad FC
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1986–1987 Crescent Mills
1987–1994 WAPDA
1994–1999 Pakistan Airlines
International career
1991 Pakistan U23
1992 Pakistan youth
1991–1995 Pakistan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Muhammad Imtiaz Kashmiri (born 1973), commonly known as Imtiaz Butt, [1] is a Pakistani former footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for WAPDA and Pakistan Airlines at the National Football Championship. Butt is among the major players of the Pakistan national football team in the 1990s, [2] [3] [4] and also helped the national team retain gold at the 1991 South Asian Games.

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Early life

The youngest among six siblings, Butt was born in Faisalabad, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. He passed his matriculation with distinction from Government Muslim High School Tariqabad. He started playing football in 1984 with Tariqabad Football Club in Faisalabad, initially playing as both forward and goalkeeper until switching to midfield. [1]

Club career

Crescent Mills

On 28 July 1986, Butt joined the Crescent Mills departmental team, for which he remained until 17 February 1987. [1]

WAPDA

On 18 February 1987, Butt joined WAPDA at the National Football Championship. In 1990, Butt also participated in the National Youth Championship held in Faisalabad and represented Punjab, where his team secured the second position. [5] [6] [7] He left WAPDA on 7 November 1994. [1]

Foreign interest

Due to his performance with the Pakistan youth team at the 1992 AFC Youth Championship qualifiers held in Kannur, India, Butt was offered playing contracts by two clubs in Bangladesh and later the Marine Maritime Academy in the United States, which later failed to materialise. [1]

Pakistan Airlines

On 16 November 1994, Butt joined Pakistan Airlines and helped the team win the National Football Championship title in 1997. [1]

International career

Butt got selected by the national under-23 side for the 1992 Summer Olympics qualifiers in 1991. He also featured for the Pakistan under-19 national team at the 1992 AFC Youth Championship qualifiers in Kannur, India. [1]

Butt was first called by the senior Pakistan national team at the 1991 South Asian Games in Sri Lanka. He made his first bench appearance for the senior national team in the opening game against Maldives. He featured as starter in the final against Maldives, winning the match by 2–0 and clinching the title. [8]

Coaching career

After his retirement as player, Butt served as manager of the Pakistan national under-19 team for the 2008 AFC U-19 Championship qualification in November 2007 in Tehran. [9]

Later on, he opened a football academy in Faisalabad that engages veteran players while also training young footballers. [10] [11]

Honours

Pakistan

Pakistan Airlines

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